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εὐρύς

First/Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐρύς εὐρεῖα εὐρύ

Structure: εὐρυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. wide, broad, spacious, especially of heaven, earth, and sea

Examples

  • οὕτωσ εὐρύτερον τὸ πρὸσ τὴν ἔκχυσιν κεχηνὸσ τοῦ πίθου καὶ ἀκώλυτοσ ἡ ἔξοδοσ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 18:6)
  • ἀρύβαλλοσ ποτήριον κάτωθεν εὐρύτερον, ἄνω δὲ συνηγμένον, ὡσ τὰ συσπαστὰ βαλάντια, ἃ καὶ αὐτὰ διὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα ἀρυβάλλουσ τινὲσ καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 26 1:2)
  • Κηνσωρῖνοσ δὲ χώσασ τι τῆσ λίμνησ παρὰ τὴν ταινίαν, ἵνα εὐρύτερον εἰή, δύο μηχανὰσ κριοφόρουσ ἐπῆγε μεγάλασ, τὴν μὲν ὠθουμένην ἑξακισχιλίοισ πεζοῖσ, ἡγουμένων τῶν χιλιάρχων, τὴν δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐρετῶν, ἡγουμένων καὶ τοῖσδε ναυάρχων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 4:1)
  • οἵ τε δὴ βάρβαροι οἱ ἀμφὶ Ξέρξην προσήισαν, καὶ οἱ ἀμφὶ Λεωνίδην Ἕλληνεσ, ὡσ τὴν ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἔξοδον ποιεύμενοι, ἤδη πολλῶ μᾶλλον ἢ κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐπεξήισαν ἐσ τὸ εὐρύτερον τοῦ αὐχένοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 223 3:1)
  • βράγχια δὲ ὑπὸ τοῖσ ὠσὶν ἔχουσι καὶ ῥῖνα ἀνθρώπου, στόμα δὲ εὐρύτερον καὶ ὀδόντασ θηρίου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 2:4)

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